With us you can explore the Ranikhet landscape region on mountain bikes, riding from one place to another, set up camp for the night, cook food and observe the rich...Read More...

Places:
Uttarakhand

Activities:
Cycling, Wildlife

Dates:
Customizable

Difficulty:
Easy

Rating:

Trip Overview

Syat (2,800 ft) is a small Kumaoni village on the periphery of the Corbett Park region. It offers an outbound experience which is wilder and very real. The camp is located in an organic farm on the hill slopes above Kotabag and the site overlooks the Baur river valley. Here you can harvest fresh vegetables for your next meal, go swimming in river pools or rock climbing and rappelling over a waterfall. You can trek through densely forested hills or explore the river valley dotted with villages and farmlands on mountain bikes. The more adventurous can pitch the tents deeper into the forest to co-exist with varied wildlife and live a life ‘out there’.

Arrive at Ramnagar station and transfer to Camp Kyari, Syat in jeeps. Tent allotment and settling in followed by breakfast. Camp briefing and orientation: Introduction to camp staff and instructors, Briefing on campsite, facilities, general area, and activities. Familiarization trek in the surrounding forest for Rock Jumaring/ rappelling. Picnic lunch in the forest. Splash in the Baur river. Volleyball game in the campsite. Campfire at night followed by dinner and night walk in the forest.

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Early morning bird watching trail. Participants can have a farming orientation session, tend to a vegetable garden, try the plough with bullocks, harvest fruits, tomatoes etc. and make your own salad. Breakfas followed by river crossing, ladder climbing near the camp. Short trek to Baavan Seedhi. (short half day hike to hill top temple) or dense remote jungles with stunning birds eye views of the Baur river valley floor and the Haripura Dam. Post lunch body surfing with life jackets in the canal / Sunset walks through the village.

3

Breakfast followed by walk to the Chalkiya village for Mountain biking on the valley floor through the terai village farms and forest. Post lunch, option of Sunset Village walk through the forest & farms or cook you own Kumaoni meal in the camp kitchen. Informal Kumaoni music session at the campfire. Early or packed dinner- Departure for Ramnagar station in jeeps. Board overnight train to Old Delhi station.